Thursday, January 13, 2011

on a brief moment of peace & quiet...

Aaah...peace and quiet! Parker is napping and I'm relaxing. I thought it was about time for an update on the HustonFam. 









December:
The beginning of December was pretty uneventful. There was a lot of rushing around and preparing for the  holidays, but other than that nothing too exciting. The weekend before Christmas, Parker and I went up to Sheridan to spend the whole week with my parents. It was a nice change and super nice to spend that time with my parents. Matt came up mid week and it couldn't have happened sooner. We missed him so much! The rest of the week was crazy. We celebrated my brother's birthday, just the way he would have wanted! He would have been 27 years old. 


On Christmas Eve, we headed out to Dayton for dinner, presents and then church. To follow tradition, we opened more presents at my parents house after church. Parker had so much fun opening presents, but he wanted to play with everything after he tore the wrapping off. It made for a long process. But, it was fun and we loved every minute of it. Saying Parker is spoiled would be an understatement! He has so many fun new things! Santa even brought him a little power wheels atv! He loves it. He just went and sat on it and opened all his stocking stuff from the atv on Christmas morning. My parents hosted Christmas dinner for the whole family including Matt's parents, grandma and aunt and my god-mother. We all had a good time eating way too much and playing Kinect to burn it off.  We headed home on Sunday and it was nice to be back in our own bed!


January:
Nothing too exciting has happened yet. Just getting back into the swing of things and preparing for Baby Breckin's arrival less than 11 weeks! This weekend will be the first time ever that we will be leaving Parker overnight. Matt's winter event for Progressive is Saturday night and we are going to stay overnight at the hotel. It will be really nice, but I am already asking my parents (they are watching Parker for the night) all sorts of questions. I'm pretty sure I called my mom this week and asked her, "What do you plan on doing with my son on Saturday?" Ya, I'm that kind of parent!


Parker:
Parker is now 18 months old...almost 19! We took him to his checkup and he still a tall and skinny guy! He is growing right on track! He is way ahead in all of his skills, especially his verbal. About a week ago, we started Parker in his big boy bed. He is doing very well in it and loves his night-night and pillow! It has been a good transition and I hope it continues to go this way because we have decided that the boys will share a room. Matt just painted their room and hopefully it will be all finished and ready by next week. 


Breckin:
I am now 29 weeks pregnant. I have started going to the doctor every two weeks and everything is right on track. I am doing well with everything, but it is exhausting running after an 18 month old! Breckin is growing well and moving a ton. I only have 8 more weeks until I am full term and could go any day without any risks. We have pulled out all of Parker's old clothes and are trying to get organized for Breck's arrival. There are still a few things we have left to get, but hopefully we will get it all done in time. I'm ready to be ready! 


Sorry that was so long! My new year's resolution (I just now decided): blog more! Let's see if I can accomplish that! I will post more Christmas pictures soon. I still need to edit them and make them pretty!